Suspender-buckle



(No Model.)

F. H. RICHARDS.

' SUSPENDER BUCKLE.

No. 435,454. Patented sept. 2, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS RICHARDS, OF HARTFORD, ASSIGNOR TO THE TRAUT '& HINE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT.

SUSPENDEReBUCKL.

SCIFEAQQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 435,454, dated September 2, 1890. Application filed May l, 1890. Serial No. 360,237. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS I-I. RICHARDS, a citizen of the United States,residingat I-Iartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Suspender-Buckles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to buckles for suspenders, and to that class of suspender-buckles having cast-offs, the object being to provide a buckle of that class which shall be simple in construction, cheaply manufactured, and readily operated. The inventionis in the nature of an improvement on the buckle described and claimed in my application, Serial No. 350,232, filed May 1, 1890.

In the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a front or side view of a buckle embodying my present improvements. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same, drawn in projection with Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section through the middle of the buckle. Fig. 4 is a cross-sectional view of the buckle in line a a, Fig. 1.

Similar characters designate like parts in all the figures.

The. buckle-plate B is provided with the usual holding-teeth, as 7, Fig. 3for engaging the web 3 of the suspender, with means, as the lever L, carried on pivots 4 4, formed on the plate, for clamping the web 3 in engagement with said teeth to secure the plate to said web, and with means for carrying the elastic hanger S, said means consisting in a suspension-hook, as 10, of any suitable construction, and oppositelydisposed side catches 52 and 54, engaging the two sides 16 and 18, respectively, of said hanger S.

For carrying the usual straps, as 11 and 13, the sides 16 and 18 are bent to form the strapsupporting bars 12 and 14, respectively, to which the said straps 11 and 13 are directly attached -by any suitable and well-known means or method. The inner ends of said bars are upwardly and then outwardly bent to form suitable oppositely-disposed hooks, as 51 and 53, for engaging the corresponding catches 52 and 54, formed in the lower part of said plate B. These catches may be of any suitable construction; but I prefer the improved construction herein shown and described, whereby the catch, as 54, is formed by first making a cut, as 56, Fig. 1, and then swaging the metal on either side of said out to form the space shown occupied by the hook, as 53, in Figs. 3 and 4. By this means the raised part 54 forms a pocket or cover,

within which the end of the hook 53 is securely contained and its point fully covered. The strain on the straps 11 and 13 being in the direction of their length it will be observed that such strain will be about equally distributed between the hook 10 and the catches 52 and 54, thus obtaining great strength forthe hanger with a comparatively small diameter thereof. The hanger S is or may be made of suitable spring-Wire, and in practice of about the proportions shown in the` drawings.

When the cast-off feature of the buckle is to be used, the user grasps the hanger by the lower ends and closes together the sides thereof until said hooks 5l and 53 disengage from the catches 52 and 54, when the lower end of the hanger may be drawn forward of said catches, and the hanger then lifted oif the hook 10, thereby completing the separation of the two principal parts of the buckle.

Having thus described Iny invention, I claim- 1. In a buckle, the combination, with the buckle plate having oppositely disposed catches thereon, of the hanger S, carried by said plate, substantially as described, and having the oppositely-disposed hooks for engaging the catches, said catches consisting of forwardly-projecting portions of the buckle` plate covering the ends of the hanger-hooks.

2. In a buckle, the combination, with the buckle-plate B, having the hook 10 and the oppositely-disposed catches 52 and 54, of the hanger S, carried on said hook and ,having tho strap-supporting bars 12 and 14, each continued upwardly and then outwardly to form the hooks 51 and 53, adapted to engage said catches.

y lFRANCIS H. RICHARDS. 

